brewage vs alcohol

brewage and alcohol both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brewage	Yes	No	No	No
alcohol	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, alcohol is a hypernym of brewage; that is, alcohol is a word with a broader meaning than brewage:

brewage: drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
alcohol: a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

Other hypernyms of brewage include alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant.

brewage (noun)	alcohol (noun)
drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling	a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
	any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation